In the mountains of Mexico's tropical sierra, an ever-growing expanse of pink poppy flowers has pushed prices so low for opium paste, the gummy raw ingredient of heroin, that farmer Santiago Sanchez ...

I was at a curator’s talk on the current show at the Ashmolean, Oxford’s art museum, yesterday. The exhibition is called In Bloom: How Plants Changed Our World, and at the end there were some peppery ...

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When drug task force investigators went to a rural home in North Carolina earlier this week, they were checking out a report of possible marijuana growing. But when a man answered the door, he offered ...

A field of poppy plants that could be used to make opium was discovered in North Carolina and had an estimated value of $500 million, a sheriff says. Catawba County Sheriff Coy Reid said the only ...

The Korea Coast Guard announced on the 7th that it had arrested a total of 249 drug offenders, including 236 individuals ...

The opium poppy is famous for its ability to produce painkilling molecules. Now, by sequencing its genome, a team of scientists from China, the United Kingdom and Australia uncovered several events in ...

Opiates are nothing new—the opium poppy has been cultivated by humans for almost 5,500 years. But just how quickly and widely the use of poppy-derived narcotics spread across the world is under debate ...

In the mountains of Mexico’s tropical sierra, an ever-growing expanse of pink poppy flowers has pushed prices so low for opium paste, the gummy raw ingredient of heroin, that farmer Santiago Sánchez ...

Opium, morphine, heroin, codeine and synthetic drugs like hydrocodone have one big thing in common: they are all derived from the opium poppy, Papaver somniferum, a pretty flower cultivated in dry ...

The multibillion-dollar trade has survived previous bans. Now, the Taliban are going after solar-powered water pumps to try to dry up poppy crops in the middle of a national economic crisis. Farmers ...

When the khaki-colored landscapes of Afghanistan are transformed by a patchwork of pink, white and purple each spring, farmers rejoice. Their cash crop of poppies is ready for harvesting. Opium ...